1791

1790 1791 1792

Events

British Parliament is reconvened after being dissolved since 1789. Trial of Warren Hastings in the House of Lords begins again and doesn't end until 1795.
Wine-making resumes in Mexico at the Saint Thomas Mission (Mision de Santo Tomas) Baja California Norte.
First volume of John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland is published.
Peter Dillon moves from Martinique back to his father's ancestral Eire.

March 4: Vermont joins the United States as the 14th state.
September 3: French National Assembly issued new constitution that permited Louis XVI to retain his title and direct authority over foreign policy & army while the Assembly retained all lawmaking powers. Franchise extended to bourgeois French males.
September 27: Emacipation of the Jews of France as equal citizens of the republic. Holland, Germany, Austria, Hungary and England soon follow the example of French liberty.